Wednesday, July 16, 2003

AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders

AOL Lays Off 50 Netscape Coders
Netscape
Technology/IT
Mozilla
The Internet
Posted by timothy on Wednesday July 16, @10:30AM
from the but-mozilla-is-resilient dept.
xcable points out a CNET story which begins "America Online on Tuesday said it has laid off 50 employees involved in Web browser development at its Netscape subsidiary amid a reorganization of its Mozilla open-source browser team," and offers a reminder that "AOL recently made a deal with Microsoft to use IE in future AOL releases." This adds a bit more detail to yesterday's (updated) story about the establishment of the Mozilla foundation.

 [Slashdot]


11:27:20 AM    

Random Numbers Key to Encryption. How two math geeks with a lava lamp and a webcam are about to unleash chaos on the Internet. Tom McNichol from Wired magazine reports. [Wired News]

Good article.  Question: Should CALI run a random number generator for law schools?  See Project:LavaRnd at sourceforge.net for more details.


11:19:04 AM    

PeopleSoft integrates AOL instant messaging into its products. Improved real-time collaboration is behind the move to tie PeopleSoft's products in with AOL's instant messaging capabilities. [Computerworld News]
11:15:49 AM